Kathleen King

Tate's Bake Shop: Southampton's Award-Winning Cookies

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Tate's Bake Shop is a nominee for a Luxist Readers' Choice Award in the Best Cookie category.

This nomination will come as no surprise to anyone who has ever tasted the signature cookie of one of the country's leading independent bakers.

The company was founded by Kathleen King, who has been baking professionally since she was eleven. Born and raised on North Sea Farms in Southampton, she started to baking cookies to earn spending money. Packaged simply at first, Kings' cookies came in plastic bags with twist ties.

Gallery: More from Tate's Bake Shop

Tate's Bake Shop's award-winning cookies.

The exterior of Tate's Bake Shop in Southampton, N.Y.

By the time King was in high school, she was baking 12-hours a day, and perfecting her thin, crisp, buttery and caramel tasting chocolate chip cookies. She was so successful, her baking put her through college: SUNY College of Agriculture and Technology at Cobleskill, New York. When King was 20, she opened her first bakery and within one year she had made a name for herself in the fashionable communities on the south fork of Long Island.

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